I mean killer or not I think the end was sad. It was horrible to see Megan see on the news what he did and how he had pictures of her and wrote her messages on the wall in his blood. But what did the second word say? It said Megan, and then something under it. The reported said a secret message or something? Anyone know?
shareIt said "Pocket." That was his pet name for Megan.
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See, that's what I didn't like about this movie: I feel horrible for his fiance and I'm not trivializing what she went through, but there seemed to be little compassion for his actual victim who was murdered. She had about 5 minutes of screen time and we heard about 10 seconds of her mom crying and that was it.
There was too much of a sympathetic light drawn on Markoff that I didn't like. His suicide scene was romanticized and that corny epilogue was just...ugh.
They should've focussed more on what his motives were--that's what makes this case so intriguing. Again, about 5 minutes of the movie was devoted to this/what made him tick/etc. I could've done without the annoying multiple scenes of the girl preparing for the wedding/getting her dress/etc.
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The thing is, we don't know what made him tick. He died still claiming he was innocent. So nobody truly knows his motives. People have theories, of course, but nobody knows for sure, which I think the movie did a good job of showing - It portrayed how he was strapped for cash, and also how he was a sexual deviant. The rest is up to the world for interpretation, as it will probably always be since, you know, he's dead.
I do agree that I didn't like how the movie seemed to want us to sympathize more with Markoff himself than with, you know, the girl he killed.
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I suppose you're right, but he obviously had a strained relationship with his family (in the movie, at least) and we're never told why he felt that way or how it affected him. Maybe if they showed flashbacks or more of the crimes (were there 16 attacks in real life?) it would've been a better movie.
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There were 16 "trophies" under his bed, found by the police, but we don't know who his victims were. Like the movie states, they probably didn't want to come forward because then they would also have to tell the world they posted on Craigslist's erotic section.
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I agree with you on all points.
Where the movie fell very short was indeed in any analysis or post-arrest profile of what Markoff really was, which to my thinking, was an ordinary sociopath with sexual deviancy.
Committing suicide with the plaintive cries to Megan were more about drawing attention to him than they were to Megan; also, with sociopaths, it really is all about them. He may as well have held up a placard that said "oh poor pitiful me."
Markoff may only have killed once in a panic, but with his type of sexual deviancy (domination and bondage), it's probably only a matter of time before he aquired a real taste for it.
Luckily, he wasn't as good at planning crimes as he was at other things - but - if he was only assaulting prostitutes - and they rarely report crimes - there's no telling how many girls he really assaulted.
Anyway, I'd love to see what a good FBI profiler would have to say about him.
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I felt the same way. I have no idea why they would try to make us sympathize with him. He was the villain, and whether he admitted to killing the girls or not, the fact that he committed suicide after he was arrested is a pretty big clue that he probably was the killer. Plus the cops had enough evidence to put him away. I felt bad for his fiancé and for the girls he assaulted, but the fact that lifetime chose to show him in a sympathetic light is beyond me.
That's a good point, and Idk how closely the movie followed true events & character, but it kinda makes me mad because as I was just watching the end of it, knowing what he did, I still sort of felt sorry for him. And I sure didn't want to. Just made me wonder what was wrong with him that he could do those horrible things yet act so completely different with his fiancee and really seem to be in love with her. I felt awful for her, of course, and yeah, you have to think about the victim/victims, but the stupid movie had that ending that did pull the viewer in and manipulate their emotions.
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